Meditation Mystic Quotes & Sayings

His vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster. — Patricia Hamill

Lovers of God possess intense concentration. In prayer their attention rivets itself so completely onto God that nothing can tear it away. Even a suggestion of the divine may draw them into a higher state of consciousness. Occasionally this can be somewhat inconvenient. Sri Ramakrishna once went to see a religious drama produced by his disciple. The curtain went up and a character started singing the praises of the Lord. Sri Ramakrishna immediately began to enter the supreme state of consciousness. The stage faded; the actors and actresses faded. As only a great mystic can, he uttered a protest: "I come here, Lord, to see a play staged by my disciple, and you send me into ecstasy. I won't let it happen!" And he started saying over and over, "Money... money...money," so as to keep some awareness of the temporal world. — Eknath Easwaran

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. — Philip James Bailey

The complexity and efficiency of the physicist's technical apparatus is matched, if not surpassed, by that of the mystic's consciousness - both physical and spiritual - in deep meditation. — Fritjof Capra

Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity. — David Cottrell

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. — James Allen

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted. — Cecil Purdy

There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We — Burton G. Malkiel

I'm always doing something new. I took a fencing class - that was awesome. And I do a lot of my own athletic work or stunts. — Debby Ryan

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields. — Justina Chen

To understand the extreme lengths to which the Sufis were prepared to go in reading esoteric meanings into the quite simple language of their Scriptures, it is necessary to remember that the Koran was committed to memory by all deeply religious men and women, and recited constantly, aloud or in the heart; so that the mystic was in a state of uninterrupted meditation upon the Holy Book. Many passages which would otherwise pass without special notice were therefore bound to arrest their attention, already sufficiently alert, and to quicken their imagination, already fired by the discipline of their austerities and the rigor of their internal life. — A.J. Arberry